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In last week鈥檚 column, I suggested that: 鈥淏.C.

My entire life, I鈥檝e heard the phrase 鈥淭hank you for your service,鈥� and I鈥檝e said it many times, but it wasn鈥檛 until I met Desmond James that I really understood what it meant. I met James in 2018 when I started working toward my master鈥檚 degree.

Despite the recent deferral on old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed and Central Walbran areas, the Fairy Creek 颅protests 颅continue. The deferral suspends logging on 2,034聽hectares in those areas for two years.

The new 鈥榃ar in the Woods鈥� to protect old-growth forest in Fairy Creek and far beyond raises an important issue that has been neglected.

A ruckus has broken out in the scientific community over a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a new drug designed to combat Alzheimer鈥檚.

Even without the murder, it would have been hard to live under the weight of his famous but scandal-tinged father鈥檚 name.

As B.C.

I called her 鈥淪ister Ogre.鈥� I never said the name out loud, of course 鈥� not to her or to anyone else. For some reason, my parents sent me to a Catholic elementary school. It was in a new suburban neighbourhood of a small Alberta city.

Some may find this column disturbing, as it is about the deaths of Indigenous people a century or more ago. Moreover, in quoting from a 1922 report, some of the words used then (e.g. Indians) are not acceptable today.

The unspeakable discovery of children鈥檚 bodies beside a residential school funded by the federal government and administered by a religious organization brought Christopher Hitchens to mind.